aTV Flash (black) Beta5 Now Available

Today we are pleased to announce the release aTV Flash (black) Beta5 for the 2nd generation AppleTV.

Beta5 features improvements to virtually every aspect of aTV Flash (black) but our main focus has been on building and improving the Media Player feature. Media Player has received a big boost in Beta5, but is still under heavy development with many more exciting features and improvements still to come.

Keep reading to find out what's new in Beta5.

AppleTV 4.2.2 update

Yesterday (5/11) Apple released a 4.2.2 update for the 2nd gen AppleTV and Seas0nPass has been updated to provide an untetheted jailbreak for this new version. As usual, the latest version of Seas0nPass can be found at seas0npass.com.

(If you missed it last time, a brief demo of Media Player in action can be seen here).

Great! Where can I get it?

Beta5 is available through the Downloads tab in your account. If you're already running aTV Flash (black) on your AppleTV all the new features can be installed through the Maintenance --> Manage Extras menu.

Enjoy! :-)

Comments

How can I update ATV Flash Black? I can't find any option in Maintennance-->Manege Extras
But, that's no really important now. My most importan question is... How can I stream from my Mac (with Elgato) to my Apple TV 2?

I like media player, however I cannot use favorites. When I click on a favorite which I created in the folder tree of my Airport Extreme smb share, I get the error "count not open dir smb://192.168.2.1/Monstruo/Filme/ - reason: no such file or directory. However this link was created automatically and is indeed valid and works for example with finder on Mac OS X. Any ideas?

Seas0nPass is updated for unthertered 4.2.2 on windows platform already

AppleTV 4.2.2 update

Yesterday (5/11) Apple released a 4.2.2 update for the 2nd gen AppleTV and Seas0nPass has been updated to provide an untetheted jailbreak for this new version. As usual, the latest version of Seas0nPass can be found at seas0npass.com.

Great update! - the media player is a real bonus for playing dvd video ts folders (which the plex client can't do)

Like some others have noticed I am getting stuttering video on the bigger files. Can this be fixed in a future update? What exactly does the" memory low" message mean and is there a user solution to this?

Conclusion: Some of my 720p miniseries/films and my DVD-rips is playing like a charm. Didnt before, so it's the right way. Thumbs up from me. But still, some lag, once in a while.

Honestly, is it technically possible to play 720p or 1080p .MKV files on the ATV2 - flawlessly? If we see the ATV 2's specs and memory, it's not that fantastic. So can you guys realy tweak this true software?… Im still happy with my software, so it's not a trick question

…I just want to know if it's in the future from you guys, to actually come up with this solution true your software. My best.

Got seasonpass and media player all installed on 4.2.2. Great work guys. But when I try to acces video files on afp share, ATV freezes and reboots. Pics and music work fine on the same afp share. Any ideas?

I'm new in this stuff; and this is the first time that I have to upgrade my Apple TV2 to a new version (in this case, Beta 5). Well, basically I upgraded to version Beta 5 using my Apple TV2 (Maintenance --> Manage Extras menu); and everything is upgraded succefully. But, I was wondering why I can't upgrade the Apple OS to the new version (4.2.2)?? I'm experimentin problem with Youtube (Internet --> YouTube); and pops up a message saying "No content was found".

I'm trying to update the Apple TV2 following the route: Settings --> General ---> Update Software; and then when the upgrade is already downloaded; in my screen pops up a messages telling me this: "The update was not successfull".

As far I remember, I updated the Apple TV2 software before run the update from Firecore; so I'm thinking that may be the update sequence was the wrong one?? Or I have to Jailbreaked again with Seas0nPass every time when Apple send an update ??

Could you please give me some directions to solve this problem?? I was thinking that may be reset the Apple TV2 following the route: Settings --> General ---> Reset --> (Reset All Settings or Restore ??).; but this mean that I have to Jailbreaked again with the Seas0nPass??

Good update, thanks! You should consider adding support for streaming flash and html5 content (podcasts and tv network sites) natively like Boxxee/XBMC do. It should be selectable like a channel... the Boxxee interface is far superior and faster to operate than XBMC.

Using the standard Apple media interface would work perfectly as a channel surfer... and you could categorize your channels.

This is the only thing I use XBMC for now that the media player is working fairly reliably. XBMC is clunky and requires sorting through tons of menus to get to the content. Plus, exiting XBMC causes an ATV2 reset each time.

From what I've seen/tested so far, I don't think we are quite there with regards to sending video from ATV2 to iPhone when you're not connected to the same wifi network. As an alternative some people have been looking to the Seagate GoFlex Satellite 500 GB Wireless Hard Drive. I'm seeing some people buying the 16gb iPads along with one if these drives, as opposed to buying more internal memory.

I have a issue with the Media Player though. Whenever i watch a movie from my NAS server it shuts down after half an hour.

Powering up again it continues where it shut down - after around half an hour it shuts down again. Is there a hardware/software Watchdog at play here??

Regarding Media Player. It would be nice to be able to choose if the metadata is fetching the Cover picture from the internet or from the NAS server.

Regarding Radio. I know there is the original Apple TV Radio function and Your Last FM. What I miss is my local radio station, Like URL streaming or maybe if You would add TuneIn (Radiotime) to the functions like Last FM. TuneIn supports streaming local radio for free so it would be a very nice feature to have.

Regarding Music. There is one thing that is frustrating about Apple, that is having a PC running Itunes to get my music library to my Apple TV. My NAS server includes a Itunes server (Firefly version) But Apple TV can't find it without running it through Itunes v. 10.xx on my PC. It Would be nice having Firecore to implement a music player supporting standard SMB so I don't need to have my PC wasting any power .

Again, keep up the good work. Looking forward to the next beta or even bettet - the final version.

There's no way to get the Seas0nPass menu back once it's been hidden. Having this menu hidden won't actually affect your jailbreak - it's just there to give you visual confirmation your AppleTV was successfully jailbroken.

Love this software. I find that SD video plays mostly okay with the occasional hiccup. HD content though gives me a memory low error every time. What can I do to improve things (i've restarted lowtide)?

I currently can't use the media player at all because it crashes out and restarts Lowtide every time I try to watch anything. That's on Apple TV Software 4.2.1 (2100) with nothing else installed except for Media Player and Maintenance. Any help would be much appreciated!

EDIT: Just updated my Apple TV to the latest firmware and reinstalled everything... it seems to be working now - at least it's not crashing out before even starting to play.

Any ideas on next release schedule? It was a pretty consistant 2 weeks between updates but has slipped as of late - still doing great work but looking forward to more stability/media player fixes/updates.